Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-03-12

A Dulut policeman has fallen heir to
100000.
Diphtheria nrcessitated closing the schools
at Hampton.
The Winnebago Indians near Winona are
in great want.
The value Of church property assessed at
Bed Wing amounts 70 $4,000.
A hermit named Breitein froze to death at
New Richmond on the lst inst.
The First National bank of Albert Lea
elected officers on the 23d ult.
Ben Boanicker, while working in the woods
near Wabasha, was struck by tn, limb Of a
falling tree and died Of his injuries.
Lawrence Piper Will be tried at Farlbault
for assaulting Retta Seymour with a pistol.
The Touring mill at Elk River was de
stroyed by fire on the lst inst. Loss about
sl2,0 600.
The Commercial Tourists Blizzard club of
Window enjoyed its annual ball on the even.
M Of the LIST inst.
Wm. CouplIn, Of st. Peter, may die from
blood poisoning, resulting from a splinter
run into the finger several weeks ago.
The American Sandstone compsny, organ
lied at Duluth with SlCO, coo cal ital, is to
work = quarry a few miles out Of the city.
scrgt. Willard Comstock, Of company Il
Minnesnta National Guard, won q gold medal
at a competition drill at Mankato last week.
The police Of Winona are Investigating the
disappearance Of Sandy Murphy, aged twenty
He has heen missing since the 2lst Of Febru-
airy.
j. Schmltt was sentenced nj Hastings on
the 25th ult. 10 five days in jail for attempt.
Ing to enter several dwellings while intoxi.
Gated.
Mankato has seven damage suits resulting
from overflow of CUTTERS in 1881, one Of which
calls for $40, 600. They will come up in April
for trial
There was a bulge In the wheat market at
Lake City on the 23d ult, a raise of ) cents
for the day.
The board Of county commissioner OF Free
born county will meet on the 18th of March
to open bids for the construction of a new
court house.
Rev. j. G. Horridon, OF Lake City, q Wes-
leyan Methodist preacher, is being Disciplined
by his church for having become a member of
8 G. A. Il. post.
The Waseca County Anti-Horse Thief asso-
citation elected annual officers on the 23d ult.
The organization has a systematic way Of
hunting up stolen horses.
a petition is being circulated at Albert Lea
asking the council to submit a proposition to
the people TO bond the city for $4,000 for the
construction OF water works,
Mrs. Lettic Bowie, aged ninety-six; Mrs.
Jane Allen, eighty. seven, and Mrs. Elizabeth
Stewart, siXty-ive, three sisters, live alone
near Lake City, and are destitute.
1t is proposed to annex part of the tow Of
Haven to st. Paul, conditioned that the an
nexed territory become liable to taxation on
the resent bonded debt Of the city.
A. II. Fieberg, a single man living four
miles south of Audubon, killed himself last
week by cutting mis- throat. The deed was
done In a fit of ''alcoholic insanity"
The Moorhead Farmers alliance passed
resolution OF condemnation and censure on
Hon. +. Matson, for voting recently against
the agricultural interests In the legislature.
Chief OF Police Merchant, Of Albert Lea, ar
rested ". P. Smith, wanted in Iowa on a
charge Of ~fraudulently collecting internal
revenue taxes. A United States marshal came
for him.
Motticello, with only 900 Inhabitants, has
an electric light company IN full blast. 1t has
- 1900 Jixbyo g., va.aral main pyproa
and ia dwellings,, in the churches and on the
streets. The people feel very proud of their
enterprise.
Rare game is furnishing excitement to
sports at Rochester. A wildcat was killed up
Bear creek after an exciting chase, and a fine
black eagle was captured in a wolf trap, meas
uring seven feet from tip to tip.
Mrs. VIM. Rodue, Of Winnebago City, left
her husband two moths ago ostensibly to
visit the east. William found her in Cbarne,
VS., last week, living with a paramour. She
refused to 90 back TO her lawful bed and board
and William viii sue for a divorce.
A meeting was held at LeSueur last Satur-
day, the object being to form a circuit OF fairs
To consist Of the Southern Minnesota Live
Stock and Fair association, Of Mankato, and
the agricultural societies of Martin, Waton-
wan, Brown, Nicollet, Sibiey, LeSueur and
Faribault counties.
Peter Bross, a young man in Lakeyille, dis
played his genius In the conception OF the
IDEA to remove an old 5-year-old charge from
a rifle by heating it over the stove fire. Good
results followed, and when picked up he ex-
piained that the load had lodged In his ankle.
TIE stove fortunately escaped injury.
Proceedings have been instituted In the dis
trict court OF Blue Earth county To take from
their father and o-mother thee children of
Fred +. pun, o. agile Lake, on account Of
the most aLl,;ed nhumar treatment by the
Tie coart is asked to appoint
guardian.
The board Of county commissioners have
granted licenses TO saloonkeepers In Stearns
county until January /, 1888, under the old
law, holding that they have the power to do
SO, as neither the cha.rmag Of the board, the
or county attorney have received OIL
notice Of an act to the contrary.
The TELEGRAPH line along the Cannon Valley
of the Minneapolis and st. Louis
road has been transferred TO the Western